Ted Turner Quotes

Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!

If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.

If you never quit, you're never beaten.

I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.

The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.

It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

Make a way, find a way or get out of the way.

Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.

If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

I'm just a socialist at heart.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.

If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.

I'm sure God, wherever he is, wants to see us get along with one another and love one another.

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

I like something with 'vice' in it.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.

Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.

I was cable when cable wasn't cool.

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.

I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

When I started CNN, I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.

Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.

There are too many people, that's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff.

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.